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by Joan Plummer Russell
Genre - Informational Text
Paired Text - Kids and Critters: A Nature Newsletter
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question:
What are some benefits of dogs interacting with people?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - author's purpose, point of view
Target Strategy - summarize
Fluency - accuracy
Phonics
words with AR, OR, ORE
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Vocabulary
Strategy - prefixes -in, -im
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Grammar
pronoun-verb agreement
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Writing
Focus Trait - ideas
Writing Type - Narrative (prewrite an explanatory essay)
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